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[|Global issue : water] Is there enough clean water for all of us on the planet?  Are there better ways to make it available?

http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/

Today’s water crisis is not an issue of scarcity, but of access. More people in the world own cell phones than have access to a toilet. And as cities and slums grow at increasing rates, the situation worsens. Every day, lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills thousands, leaving others with reduced quality of life.

884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people

People living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city

An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than a person in a developing country slum uses in a whole day

Only 62% of the world’s population has access to improved sanitation – defined as a sanitation facility that ensures hygienic separation of human excreta from human contact.

Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.



Almost two in every three people who need safe drinking water survive on less than $2 a day and one in three on less than $1 a day.







The water you drink today has likely been around in one form or another since [|dinosaurs roamed the Earth], hundreds of millions of years ago.

 [|Freshwater] makes up a very small fraction of all water on the planet. While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. The rest is saline and ocean-based. Even then, just 1 percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, with much of it trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In essence, only 0.007 percent of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.

nfortunately, humans have proved to be inefficient water users.

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/

Global Water is an international, non-profit, humanitarian organization founded in 1982